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Autism and Quantum Mechanics (sopuli.xyz)
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I can't be the only one who absolutely hates the idea of a particle having two states at once, right? Is it just a personal thing or is it tied somehow to the fact that autistic people generally have more binary thinking?

Forgive me if it's a stupid question. I'm still trying to figure out how this all works and whether I'm autistic or not.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's probably not just because you're autistic. Quantum states are a little mind-blowing. But I do like the implication that I get to determine what's "real" because the quantum universe doesn't collapse into a single state until my consciousness interacts with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

There is absolutely no evidence that consciousness causes wavefunction collapse (that is, if wavefunction collapse even happens at all, but that is a different discussion entirely).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't it something about the information about the state being recorded?
It's been a while since I last read up on any of this but I'd be surprised if the double slit experiment for example showed wave behavior just because the results of the detector weren't shown to humans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To put things simply, measurement involves thermodynamically irreversible interaction with the larger environment. No literal observer is relevant.

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